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Qi Baishi Chinese
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Beneath an oil lamp, three rats scurry over a blue, cloth-bound book.
The artist’s inscription reads:
Rats would wish all people to be rich;
The thought behind the wish is not selfless.
In the dinghai year [1947], painted by the eighty-seven year old Baishi.
--Translation by Keita Itoh and Lawrence Wu
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清/現代 齊白石 燈下戲鼠圖 軸
Title: Rats and a Lamp
Artist:
Qi Baishi (Chinese, 1864–1957)
Date: 1947
Culture: China
Medium: Framed hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Dimensions: Image: 41 × 13 1/4 in. (104.2 × 33.7 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Bequest of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, 2014
Object Number: 2019.290.6
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